By the author of The Female Man—a provocative survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write.

"Joanna Russ is a brilliant writer, a writer of real moral passion and high wit." --Adrienne Rich

"A quirky, irreverent, iconoclastic, idiosyncratic piece of work." --Annette Kolodny

"A book of the most profound and original clarity. Like all clear-sighted people who look and see what has been much mystified and much lied about, Russ is quite excitingly subversive. The study of literature should never be the same again..." --Marge Piercy

"Extraordinary and original... femenist literary criticism rarely explores the social context in which literature is selected for posterity. This, Russ does persuasively, movingly, and in the finest of critical traditions." --Phyllis Chester

Nabula Award-winning writer Joanna Russ is professor of English at the University of Washington at Seattle. She is author of such popular novels as "The Femenine Man," "We Who Are About To," and short story collections "The Zanzibar Cat" and "The Hidden Side of the Moon."